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At a time when the British Medical
Association was calling for an end
to national funding for homeopathy
and detractors were describing it as
"nonsense on stilts", a Nobel
prize-winning scientist made a
discovery that suggests that
homeopathy does have a scientific
basis after all. Nobel
Prize winning French virologist
Professor Luc Montagnier shocked
fellow Nobel prize-winners and the
medical establishment by telling
them that he had discovered that
water has a memory that continues
even after many dilutions.

Until Montagnier's research, the
bulk of mainstream doctors and
scientist had maintained that there
was no scientific way that multiple
dilutions used in homeopathy could
possibly work. In part, such views
stemmed from lack of understanding.
In larger part, such views likely
stemmed from a desire to stem the
rising popularity of homeopathy and
eliminate it as a competition to
mainstream medicine - much the same
as happened in the United States a
century ago.

One of the foundations of homeopathy
maintains that the potency of a
substance is increased with its
dilution. Montagnier discovered that
solutions containing the DNA of
viruses and bacteria "could emit low
frequency radio waves" and that such
waves influence molecules around
them, turning them into organized
structures. The molecules in turn
emit waves and Montagnier found that
the waves remain in the water even
after it has been diluted many
times. To a lay person, that may not
mean much, but to a scientist is
highly suggests that homeopathy may
have a scientific basis.

In Britain the market for homeopathy
is estimated to be growing at around
20% a year. Over 30 million people
in Europe use homeopathic medicine.
Homeopathy is supported in Britain
by Prince Charles and the physician
to the Royal Family has been a
homeopathic physician since the late
1800s.

While homeopathy is also
experiencing a resurgence of
popularity in the United States, it
is far more popular in much of the
rest of the world. In India,
approximately 130 million people use
homeopathy. In Brazil, homeopathy is
a recognized medical specialty where
15,000 medical doctors are certified
as homeopathic specialists.

The latter half of the 19th century
was homeopathy's heyday in the
United States. Regular physicians
could hardly compete. By 1902
homeopaths did seven times the
business of allopaths and there were
15,000 practicing homeopathic
physicians in the US. During the
1849 cholera epidemic, homeopaths
from Cincinnati kept rigorous
records showing that they lost only
3% of their patients, while
allopathy lost 16 to 20 times more.

Many highly accomplished individuals
past and present have chosen
homeopathy as their therapy of
choice, including several U.S.
Presidents. Many of America's
literary greats advocated for and
often wrote about homeopathy,
including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, Louisa May
Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and
Mark Twain - as did European greats
such as Goethe, Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, Lord Alfred Tennyson, and
George Bernard Shaw.

At the turn of the 20th century, the
AMA came right out and admitted that
competition was destroying
physicians' incomes. Thanks to
funding from John D. Rockefeller and
the Carnegie Foundation, the AMA was
able to repress and ultimately
eliminate homeopathy and other
natural and alternative competition.
The 22 homeopathic medical schools
that flourished in 1900 dwindled to
just 2 in 1923. By 1950 all schools
teaching homeopathy were closed.

Ironically, John D. Rockefeller
believed strongly in homeopathy. He
referred to it as "a progressive and
aggressive step in medicine."
Rockefeller lived to the ripe old
age of 99 using only homeopathy in
the latter part of his life.

To learn more
about how
mainstream medicine conspired to
suppress homeopathy see:

Tony Isaacs is a member of the National Health Federation and the American Botanical Council. He is a natural health advocate and researcher and the author of books and articles about natural health including "Cancer's Natural Enemy." Mr. Isaacs articles are featured at The Truth About Cancer, the Health Science Institute's Healthiertalk website, CureZone, the Crusador, Health Secrets, the Cancer Tutor, the Silver Bulletin, the New Zealand Journal of Natural Health, and several other venues. In addition, he hosts the Yahoo Oleandersoup Health group of over 3500 members and the CureZone Ask Tony Isaacs - Featuring Luella May forum. He is also the local moderator of the CureZone Cancer Alternatives forum. Tony and his partner Luella May host The Best Years in Life natural health website where their motto is "It's never too late or too early to begin living longer, healthier and happier lives."